{"id":877,"date":"2011-01-01T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=877"},"modified":"2023-06-10T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:32:25","slug":"mpguino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/mpguino\/","title":{"rendered":"MPGuino (Arduino for Car MPG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>August 2009<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mpguino-full.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1225\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/mpguino\/mpguino-2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mpguino.jpg?fit=200%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mpguino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mpguino.jpg?fit=200%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1225\" title=\"mpguino\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mpguino.jpg?resize=200%2C124\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/\">Arduino <\/a> microcontroller that I wired into my car&#8217;s ECU and programmed to calculate the instantaneous\/average miles per gallon of my 2002 Honda Civic. The circuit reads pulses from the Vehicle Speed Sensor and Fuel Injector wires. It\u00a0is wired into my car via a USB cable. It&#8217;s pretty accurate once calibrated.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4lAbZnaws5E\">MPGuino Video<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4lAbZnaws5E\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The image at the top shows its current location (not in video).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecomodder.com\/wiki\/index.php\/2002_Honda_Civic_EX_Coupe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My page<\/a> on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecomodder.com\/wiki\/index.php\/MPGuino\">MPGuino Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honda Civic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mcclanahoochie\/5076444939\/in\/photostream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECU wiring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2002 Civic ECU <a href=\"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2002-civic-ecu-pinout.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pinout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2009 This is an\u00a0Arduino microcontroller that I wired into my car&#8217;s ECU and programmed to calculate the instantaneous\/average miles per gallon of my 2002 Honda Civic. The circuit reads pulses from the Vehicle Speed Sensor and Fuel Injector wires. It\u00a0is wired into my car via a USB cable. It&#8217;s pretty accurate once calibrated. My &#8230; <a title=\"MPGuino (Arduino for Car MPG)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/mpguino\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MPGuino (Arduino for Car MPG)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,33,83,136,135,101,29,142],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arduino","tag-car","tag-circuit","tag-gas-mileage","tag-mpg","tag-programming","tag-projects","tag-speedometer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sZdXI-mpguino","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/idle-fuel-consumption-ac-vs-no-ac\/","url_meta":{"origin":877,"position":0},"title":"Idle Fuel Consumption | A\/C On vs. A\/C Off","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"August 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was curious about how much gas was actually\u00a0saved when idling my car with the A\/C off, so I gathered some fuel\u00a0efficiency\u00a0numbers using the\u00a0MPGuino I made for my 2002 Honda Civic. The MPGuino can display the instant Gallons Per Hour (GPH) consumed, and this measurement was used for these tests.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"arduino\"","block_context":{"text":"arduino","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/tag\/arduino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/oimg?key=0Akacmsp16SQtdFJDOEFnOXBVTTZwc055QXdlRmxrakE&oid=2&zx=dlz9ilw717ri","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/oimg?key=0Akacmsp16SQtdFJDOEFnOXBVTTZwc055QXdlRmxrakE&oid=2&zx=dlz9ilw717ri 1x, https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/oimg?key=0Akacmsp16SQtdFJDOEFnOXBVTTZwc055QXdlRmxrakE&oid=2&zx=dlz9ilw717ri 1.5x, https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/oimg?key=0Akacmsp16SQtdFJDOEFnOXBVTTZwc055QXdlRmxrakE&oid=2&zx=dlz9ilw717ri 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/pic-digital-speedometer\/","url_meta":{"origin":877,"position":1},"title":"PIC Digital Speedometer","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"January 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"June 2008 I used a PIC microcontroller in a circuit to measure my car's MPH.\u00a0It measures the frequency of pulses from the\u00a0Vehicle Speed Sensor,\u00a0and converts it to miles-per-hour. A summer project involving programming a PIC micro controller to measure my Honda Civic's MPH. The circuit I made measures the frequency\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"car\"","block_context":{"text":"car","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/tag\/car\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/digitalspeedo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2514,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/music-visualization-with-an-arduino\/","url_meta":{"origin":877,"position":2},"title":"Music Visualization with an Arduino","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"December 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Audio Frequency Spectrum Analyzer &\u00a0Spectrogram As a followup to a previous post on Music Visualization with Processing (and a good excuse to play with my Arduino), I decided to convert my Processing music visualizer into hardware. 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